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Desert Storm veteran and longtime metro Atlanta resident Mark Harris was arrested on Saturday for refusing to leave his property after being foreclosed upon and evicted. His eviction came after months of trying to negotiate a compromise with lender Fannie Mae over the mortgage payments on his Avondale Estates home.
According to Harris, police officers knocked on his door around 8 a.m. Friday morning, allegedly with their guns drawn, and told him he was being evicted.
“They knocked on my door at 8:15 a.m. My neighbor called and said there were a lot of police cars in front of my house … and when I opened the door, two police officers had their guns drawn and they said they were here to evict me,” Harris told CL Friday morning as he stood on his lawn and watched his belongings get removed from the house and placed in his front yard. After watching his house be emptied, Harris decided that he would not simply surrender his property.